How do people feel about flying stick controlled aircraft with their yoke setup? Am I the only one who feels weird doing it? I can’t be.
I’ve almost gone so far as to avoid doing it…but feel like I’m missing out on flying some fun planes…SR22, Diamonds, etc…
Probably the same way most people with joysticks feel about flying real-life yoke-equipped aircraft - nothing? 
It’s not as if muscle memory is going to make it better or worse. They all respond the same way to inputs.
To me it depends on the plane. For the experimental FBW A320, the yoke feels strange. Same with any acrobatic planes. Besides that, I have no issue flying a stick plane with my Alpha.
Agree with you. I find flying stick airplanes with my Bravo yoke rather odd. Strangely, don’t find flying yoke airplanes with my ancient Logitech stick all that unnatural.
As a result, the ratty old stick stays on my desk; the very nice and expensive yoke spends most of its life packed away in the closet…
My main thing is having a right-handed stick when I’ll be flying with my left hand in real life. Not terribly concerned about using a stick on a yoke aircraft (or about the prospect of using a yoke on a stick controlled once I get the honeycomb alpha). I think a yoke would actually be better for me than a stick, even though I’ll be flying the DV-20 in the sim for another few months.
I used my yoke for a while, but then noticed my CH fighter stick sitting all lonely. Now I use that with the DA62 and A320. (my two go to planes lately) Either way works, but I do like the less desk space taken up by the stick and throttle quadrant.
This is one thing that is probably rather small and meaningless to most people, but for me, I had a hard time getting past it as well. Flying with my right hand feels off. I’m so used to left on the yoke and right on the throttle.
I’m the same. I don’t have a joystick and am still enjoying my Alpha yoke too much to insult it by binding it to a virtual stick. I tend to focus on very few aircraft anyway, and there’s plenty to choose from in the yoke compartment.
But it does nag me a little that I’m missing out on the FBW A320. If, one day, I decide to try that one out, it won’t be after I have invested in a good joystick, though.
Some joysticks can be swapped between right and lefthanded (Thrustmaster T16000M and the Airbus flightstick that I know of).
I only feel weird about it if I can see the stick in the VC, which usually isn’t the case unless I have my view pointed down. Other than that its all the same to me. Up down left right / back forward left right.
The other way round doesn’t feel as strange because all kinds of aircraft; gliders, fighters, transport aircraft and bombers can be equipped with a stick IRL.
Yokes on the other hand are of a very limited use concerning aircraft type.
It doesn’t feel ‘wrong’ to fly e.g. an A300 or A310 with a stick, but flying an Extra or Pitts with a yoke does.
That’s funny in a good way. I can’t fly left/throttle right, not even in an emergency. Probably 3/4 of my hours have been spent in stick controlled, conventional gear aircraft. Since the beginning (subLogic on a C64) I’ve flown right-hand stick, left-hand everything else. The invention of 3-axis sticks was the life-changer for me. While I toy with the idea of a yoke and pedals, the cost is the same as the fastest CPU my motherboard can handle. I’ve said this before, fly what feels best to you.
maybe the strangest: I fly helicopter with the yoke (don’t have another option), but it works quite fine.
IRL I flew yoke, right hand stick (J3 Cup on floats) and left handed stick (Cirrus SR22).
I found the Cirrus the most unconformtable, since it required quite some force from the weaker left hand.
I sometimes would like to have a (long stick), e.g. for aerobatic planes.
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